The focus is on easy and free access to quality open source software for use in the educational arena. We'll review the pedagogy supporting the use of these tools and look at some examples of;
Diigo
Pageflakes
Voicethread
Issuu & Yudu
Participants will have an opportunity to learn how to use these tools and implement enriching learning that incorporates ICT both at school and off campus. A time to share and discuss the uses and benefits of these tools will be provided.
– based on Understanding by Design(Wiggins & McTighe) Participants to work in school groups (3/4) on a collaborative wiki site which allows sharing of ideas and products at the end of each activity. Part I: Setting goals
To investigate the frameworks of your course and to identify any challenges and opportunities that exist as a result of your own local contexts, conditions, resources etc.
To set overarching and ancillary skills goals for your course in the context of your students, your department, and your institution.
To choose specific content through which you can accomplish the overarching goals.
Part II: Designing the course
To develop a course plan and consider how that course plan will help students achieve the overarching goals.
To explore a variety of teaching strategies and assessment tools to help you build up your toolbox of techniques, add to your arsenal of ideas and templates for activities and assignments.
To design learning activities to give students practice in tasks relevant to the goals of the course and to develop assessments to evaluate students’ progress toward the goals.
Session Two
LAMS
Use of LAMS (Maquarie University) to develop interactive learning sequences.
Participants will have the opportunity to;
Act as students and experience some existing sequences
Act as authors to create a learning sequence (using UbD theory, and Heulab tools) relevant to their own school/topic interests
Share their completed sequences with all participants
The focus is on easy and free access to quality open source software for use in the educational arena. We'll review the pedagogy supporting the use of these tools and look at some examples of;
Diigo
Pageflakes
Voicethread
Wikis - wikispaces
Blogs - edublogs, blogger, wordpress
Participants will have an opportunity to learn how to use these tools and implement enriching learning that incorporates ICT both at school and off campus. A time to share and discuss the uses and benefits of these tools will be provided.
A very impressive maths video ..... there had to be one!!
Session Three
The focus is on easy and free access to quality open source software for use in the educational arena. We'll review the pedagogy supporting the use of these tools and look at some examples of;
Participants will have an opportunity to learn how to use these tools and implement enriching learning that incorporates ICT both at school and off campus. A time to share and discuss the uses and benefits of these tools will be provided.
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Session One
Learning by Design
– based on Understanding by Design (Wiggins & McTighe)Participants to work in school groups (3/4) on a collaborative wiki site which allows sharing of ideas and products at the end of each activity.
Session Two
LAMS
Participants will have the opportunity to;
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The focus is on easy and free access to quality open source software for use in the educational arena. We'll review the pedagogy supporting the use of these tools and look at some examples of;
Participants will have an opportunity to learn how to use these tools and implement enriching learning that incorporates ICT both at school and off campus. A time to share and discuss the uses and benefits of these tools will be provided.